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“A distinguished student of 

geography and of men has 
declared that the Northwest— 
meaning Oregon, Washington, 
Idaho, a part of Montana and a 
part ef Canada—is likely to be 
the home of a better stock of men 
of cur race than has yet been de- 
veloped elsewhere in the United 
States, or in Canada, or in any 
part of the British colonies.” 


Che Old Whitman 
and the Nem 


HE present Whitman College is 

enriched by a noble history. Harvard 

reveres the English clergyman who 
bequeathed it 4750 and his library of 300 
books. Yale celebrates the name of the 
English merchant who endowed it with 
£600; both institutions have struggled up 
from simple beginnings, by many sacrifices, 
to their present opulent life. Whitman has 
a yet more romantic and heroic history. 
The College bears the name of a 

aie Pie a; Its 

great Christian missionary, who died H, 
* at his post of duty in the Pacific 7” 
. Northwest, and whose vigorous life of 
_ service for his country will ever be an 
_ inspiration to its students; it expresses in its 
_.foundation the devoted loyalty of his friend, 
~ Cushing Eells, and his prophetic anticipa- 
~ tion of the future importance of the region 
= in which Dr. Whitman died; it lives today 
-» because of the sublime self-sacrifice of its 
* founder, and in a lesser degree of those 


“2 men and women who have given their lives 


= and fortunes to it. As it looks backward, 
it is conscious of an heroic past and a rich 
- inheritance of faith and effort. It must be 
loyal to its founders. 


[ IT HAS acquired traditions in the fifty- 
one years of its actual existence. The 
fine scholarship of Williams College was 
ji; blended in Cushing Eells with Chris- 
Traditions tlam earnestness, and today Whitman 
College stands in the life of the 
Northwest for these two distinct ideals, of a 
service which shall be Christian in its spirit 
and scholarly in its standards. To these 
ideals must be added that of the College life 
today, namely, a certain wholesome friend- 
liness between all its members, exemplifying 
the brotherhood of man. 


HAT has the College achieved besides 
these three inestimable traditions? 
It has grown from a village school of 1866 
to a college of the New England type, whose 
The students pass with full credit to equal 
standing in the best colleges and 
universities of the East. Its present 
Freshman class numbers seventy-five. 
It has accumulated already a larger endow- 
ment than Yale had after a hundred years, 
and has a total property valued at over a 
half a million of dollars. It has a beautiful 
campus, several modern and well-equipped 
buildings of stone and brick, a library of 
over fifteen thousand volumes, good though 
crowded laboratories for Biology, Physics 
and Chemistry, a valuable museum, a Fac- 
ulty whose learning and devotion could not 
well be surpassed, and a student-body whose 
loyalty and enthusiasm are equally note- 
worthy. 


Progress 


yf T OFFERS 227 courses each semester, 

675 hours each week, of instruction in 
Philosophy, Pedagogy, History, Economics, 
Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, German, 
Spanish, Italian, English, Mathe- 
matics, Astronomy, Mechanical lis Present 
Drawing, Physics, Chemistry, Work 
Biology, Geology, Science of Music, 
Domestic Science, and Physical Training. 
The student who graduates must have fin- 
ished acceptably 128 hours of such work, 
made up first of certain definitely prescribed 
studies; second, of 32 hours in his “major” 
study, and the balance of electives, varying 
with the degree for which he is a candidate. 
The College gives four degrees, Bachelor 
of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of 
Letters, and Bachelor of Music. Its gradu- 
ates are accepted as candidates for the 
Master’s degree in one year by every 
American university. 


Y REASON OF its high entrance 

requirements of thirty-two credits, the 
College is obliged to maintain a preparatory 
department, Pearsons Academy, in Th 
order to prepare the many students 
who come to it unable to enter the 
Freshman class without conditions. All 
work in the Academy is under the super- 
vision of the Principal and the direction of 
college professors. Its students have the 
advantage of the College atmosphere. “The 
graduates of Pearsons Academy are prepared 
to enter any college or university in the land. 


Academy 


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THE Whitman Conservatory of Music 
maintains similar high standards of 
musical art and scholarship. It has well- 
developed departments of Pipe Organ, 
The Piano, Voice, Stringed Instru- 
ments, Wind Instruments, and 
Science of Music, with a large 
corps of thoroughly trained and experienced 
teachers. [he pipe organ, orchestra, band, 
choral society, glee clubs, chapel choir, 
concerts and recitals enrich the life of the 
institution and contribute both to its pleas- 
ureableness and to the development of 
artistic appreciation. Besides the degree 
of Bachelor of Music, diplomas and normal 
certificates are awarded to those who have 
attained the requisite scholarship and pro- 
ficiency. The President of the College is 
also Director of the Conservatory. 


Conservatory 


HITMAN COLLEGE, therefore, 

is today a small institution of less than 

four hundred students of both sexes, estab- 
lished on a firm foundation of endowment 
and property, dependent in part 
upon the tuition fees of its students 
and the gifts of its friends, and already rich 
in its history, traditions, and religious spirit. 
As a private institution, it is free from politi- 
cal or sectarian domination. It stands for 
the highest in scholarship and in character. 


Summary 


Che New Whitman 


ORDER to understand the natural 
‘development which is before the College, 
it is necessary first to appreciate its geo- 
graphical location at the strategic centre of 
the great Northwest. Cushing Eells 
was providentially guided when he 
located the College at Walla Walla, 
the garden spot of “Old Oregon,” for he 
unconsciously selected the one site which, 
with incomparable advantages of mild 
climate and fertile soil, would be equally 
advantageous as an educational centre for 
the future populations of Idaho, Oregon, 
and Washington. Other cities will be larger 
as the Northwest develops, but none is so 
centrally located, and as the great agricuit- 
ural and horticultural enterprises of the 
Inland Empire are pushed to completion 
and irrigation reclaims great areas now use- 
ful only for grazing, Walla Walla will be 
surrounded by a densely settled territory of 
unrivalled prosperity and will be recognized 
as an ideal college town. Within a radius 
of two hundred and fifty miles are found 
the present cities of Spokane (100,000), 
Portland (200,000), Tacoma (100,000), 
Seattle (250,000), Boise (25,000), and 
many smaller towns of from two thousand 
to ten thousand population, with a total 
population today, within the circle, of at 


Strategic 
Location 


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least a million and a half. And this region, 
blest with extraordinary natural resources, 
is easily capable of sustaining a population 
of fifty millions. Whitman College is at 
its centre. 


ECAUSE of this remarkable central 
location, Commanding the three states, 
the Trustees of Whitman College feel that 
the College must be made, in a larger 
The sense, the representative educa- 
tional institution for the whole 
Northwest. It must meet the needs 
of a larger constituency than it does today, 
and without forgetting its history and tradi- 
tions, must contribute more effectively to 
all the developments which shall take place 
in the life of the Northwest. What Harvard 
and Yale are to New England, Whitman 
hopes to be to the Northwest. 


New College 


S THE first step towards its new 
responsibilities, it proposes to establish 

a School of Technology, where engineers 
will be trained to develop the astonishing 
natural resources of the Pacific 

rpitalic’ Northwest. Certain definite 
peculiarities will characterize its 
engineering departments: first, they will be 
established in order, one after another, as 
rapidly as means are provided for equipment 
and instruction equal to the best in the 
United States; second, the hig’est standards 
of proficiency will be demanded of the 
students who receive a degree in engineer- 


Technology 


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ing; third, the value of culture as well as of 
technique will be distinctively recognized in 
the curriculum; and fourth, the influences 
and inspirations of the present life of the 
College will be brought to bear equally 
upon the lives of the engineering students. 
Departments of Civil, Mechanical, Elec- 
trical, Hydraulic, and Mining Engineering 
will be founded, in fact are already begun 
so far as the first three years of instruction 
are concerned in which a common founda- 
tion is laid. 


THE Trustees of the College feel that 

Whitman has a distinct and rare influ- 
ence to exert on the development of the 
Northwest, and they believe 
that this may be exerted in 
a large degree by means of 
the skilled engineers whom it will train. 
The natural wealth of the region tributary 
to the College is incalculable. Great water 
powers, mines of gold, silver, copper, lead, 
and coal, vast stretches of irrigable lands, 
forests of fir, pine and cedar, await develop- 
ment and presage a rich and _ populous 
civilization in the future. 


Natural Resources 
of the Northwest 


ZA SCHOOL of Forestry and Irrigation 

is needed for the training of experts 
to conserve the great tim- 
ber resources of the North- 
west, to assist in caring 
for the thirty-one forest reserves which the 
Government of the United States has 


School of 
Forestry and Irrigation 


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already set apart with a total area of 
63,250 square miles, and to direct the 
reclamation of vast areas of arid and semi- 
arid land. 


SCHOOL of Commerce and Banking 

is needed to develop trained finan- 

School of ciers who can adequately 

Commerce and Banking solve the business prob- 

lems of the Northwest 

and honorably guide its economic and 
financial development. 


N ADDITION to the School of Music 
already flourishing, an Art School is 
needed for the cultivation of the zsthetic 
School ofidet side of life and for enriching the 
civilization of the future with the 
influence of painting and sculpture. “The 
study of architecture and the training of 
architects will be a feature of this depart- 
ment. 


HEN these steps have been taken, 
all in the line of higher standards of 
education and of a more efficient life, what 
will Whitman College be? It will still be 
a college and not a university; it will 
Modest : : 
Ai still offer work only for the bachelor’s 
1miS * r i : 
degrees; it will still be true to its 
traditions and its religious spirit; and it will 
still aim at quality, rather than quantity, 
seeking not so much large numbers of 
students as to give the finest and most effec- 
tive training to the students, whether few 


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or many, who come to it ambitious for the 


best. 


to being big. 


It will steadfastly prefer being great 


Che Cost 


HAT will it cost 
plans? 


to carry out these 


A conservative estimate 


would provide for the following buildings 
as necessary: 


Two Science Buildings, 
equipped, each 
Three Dormitories, each 
A Central Heating Plant 
Library Building . } 
Conservatory of Music 
Chapel (in memory of 
Cushing Eells) 
Aoundine=. 2. 
Academy Building (for 
Pearsons Academy) 


Total for buildings 


$100,000 
50,000 


$200,000 
150,000 
40,000 
50,000 
75,000 


50,000 
50,000 


50,000 
$665,000 


BY T these buildings must be maintained 


and the new departments 


An 


an increase of expenses. 
of the College must be greatly increased. 


Five Science Departments, 
each wis 


Library Pardee’ 
Twenty Professorships, 


euch ree se). 
Total for endowment 


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properly 


ndowed, or the College would quickly 


e 
ee bankrupt. 


of students and equipment means 


increase 
Budow ment 


The endowment 


$100,000 $500,000 
100,000 


30,000 600,006 
$1,200,000 


LLINOIS-URBANA 


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Still a ae 


[f THESE figures seem too ambitious, 

it should be remembered that they would 
still leave Whitman a “small college,” in 
the class of Amherst, Dartmouth, Oberlin, 
and Williams, the endowments of which are 
listed respectively at $1,800,000, $2,600,- 
000, $1,800,000, and $1,400,000. They ~ 
contemplate no costly post-graduate depart- 
ments, no “university’’ work, but merely — 
the fitting of the College to do in the best 
manner the preparatory training of the 
professional men of the Northwest, its 
engineers, lawyers, doctors, ministers, bank- 
ers, merchants, artists, architects, musicians, 
and scholars. In large numbers these men 
are now going to Eastern colleges because ~ 
of their superior advantages. Is it not time 
that the Pacific Northwest should have its 
own Yale or Harvard, a non-political, non- 
sectarian private institution, maintaining th 
highest standards of scholarship and loyai 
to the noblest ideals ? 





Help Whitman College to become this! 


Prof. A. W. Hendrick has been appointed 
by the Trustees Dean of Whitman College 
and entrusted with the campaign outlined 
above. 


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